A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.